Apple iPod Touch 64gb - A General Overview of the Main Features

As in many Apple products the iPod Touch has a sleek and slim design (only 8.5mm thin) and is pocket sized for portability. It comes with a very clear 3.5 inch widescreen colour display screen with a Multi-Touch interface which enables you to flick through the screen menus with your fingers to locate whatever it is you are looking for. The interface is customisable so you can arrange your apps in whichever order you want them to appear, the Home button will quickly take you back to the main screen.

As an MP3 player, this gadget allows for storage of up to 14,000 songs and gives you up to 30 Hours of music playback time, it has some cool new features - Genius Mixes where Genius automatically creates mixes based on the similarity of songs available in the devices library, Genius Playlist finds songs on your device that go well with the song you are listening to and creates a playlist of these songs, Shake to Shuffle means exactly that, you physically shake your iPod Touch and it shuffles to a different song in the library, Cover Flow is a cool feature that enables you to flick through your music by album art, you can tap on an album cover and it will flip open to display a track list. The inbuilt wifi capabilities of the iPod Touch gives you direct access to iTunes and you can purchase and download songs, films, podcasts, audiobooks etc. on to it. It also has Bluetooth capabilities so you can for example pair it with Bluetooth stereo headphones for cableless listening.

You can view downloaded Movies, favourite TV shows, or Video podcasts on the Crisp widescreen display, the iPod Touch can carry up to 80 hours of Video for your viewing pleasure. On screen controls enable you to play or pause or adjust the volume, these on screen controls can be brought up on the screen by simply tapping the display. You can gain access to Itunes to buy or rent movies and TV shows which can be downloaded instantly.

There can never be a dull moment with the iPod Touch, for the avid gamer, the App Store has thousands of downloadable games, the store also offers over 75,000 amazing applications, simply browse and select from the various categories on offer, you can also use the genius feature to get recommendations for apps that might interest you. Apple ensures that you do not miss out on the Social Networking scene with this device as there are apps for popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Yahoo Messenger etc.

You can sync your device with iTunes on your Mac or PC and download music, movies, audiobooks, video podcasts and more, you can also sync email contacts.

The new iPod touch has been significantly improved over the last version apps now load faster and web pages load in a fraction of the time,the iPod Touch uses Safari web browser which is the most advanced web browser for portable devices. It has built in wireless 802.11b/g technology and can detect any wireless network within range, it stores network passwords so you do not have to enter the password every time you need to gain access to a network which you have accessed before. You can surf the web, download, view and send emails, check out YouTube clips and do most things you can do on your home PC, you can even sync the bookmarks from your Mac or PC so that you can access your favourite websites.

A new feature known as Voice Control gives you the ability to control music playback with voice commands. You say it and iPod touch plays it, shuffles it, pauses it, or names it, the Say and Play feature enables you to ask the iPod touch to play a specific song by naming the songs artist and it will play it, you can ask it what song is playing and it will tell you, tell it to play your favorite album, artist, or playlist and it will do so.

With the map feature you get accurate maps and directions to your destinations, with up-to-date traffic information.

Use Nike+ to track your workouts and set your exercise goals.

It will help you recall things that you might otherwise forget during the busy day. Voice Memos enables you to record notes to yourself - your shopping list, a plan of action, or a reminder to make a Doctor's appointment. You can also modify as well as share your memos, and for those avid readers, the iPod Touch can be used to download and read Amazon Kindle books!

There is so much going for the iPod Touch that make it so attractive, the later versions (the 32GB and 64GB) have so many new and useful features that it will be hard to resist buying one, the iPod Touch is a gadget which can rightly be described as a combination of iPod, Pocket Computer,and Portable Game Player. A highly recommended gadget for those living life in the fast lane.